Reading in Romans 3 today and reminded again of what Horace wrote in criticism of the habit of playwrights in his day of using deus ex machina to resolve plot complications: "Do not bring a god on to the stage unless the problem is one that deserves a god to solve it."
Centuries later, Martin Luther applied this idea to the problem of sin described in Romans 3: the gap between God and us could only be bridged, or solved, by God Himself : truly a problem large enough that it deserves God to solve it.
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